What to expect - Common side effects

The treatments are changing at a rapid rate. The side effects vary greatly depending on the treatments.

Hepatitis C treatments are changing so rapidly and are so individualised that the best person to discuss your treatment with is your prescribing doctor or hepatology centre.

Interferon-based treatments are strong drugs. They have more severe side effects than the newer treatments. It is likely that a person will experience some of the following side effets if they are an inderferon-based treatment, but just because a side-effect is named as being common it does not mean a person will experience it. It would be rare that a perosn would experience all of these side effects. Common side effects include:

Flu like symptoms

Fatigue

Headache

Joint and muscle aches

Sight problems or blurred vision

decreased appetite

Nausea

Depression

Insumnia

Irritability

Concentration difficulties

Hair loss

Itching

This is not an exhaustive list and again is not relevant to all the treatments available.